Broken Threads, tells the story of the Author's family.
Her mother was Italian, and the daughter of a wealthy fascist merchant who, brainwashed by the doctrines of Hitler and Mussolini, aspired to be the next great dictator, while his wife and daughter were Partisans, secretly helping Italian Jews escape. Ingrid's father was an American secret service agent, who helped them, but later vanished.

Two blond toddlers who lived three years in a lower-class black family’s Portland, Ore., home in the 1950s renew those bonds in the 1980s and '90s -- in time to assess what became of the promising young adults who came of age during the Civil Rights Movement and the extent of progress in racial relations.

People are a gift from God. Whatever you disrespect will move away from you, but whatever you respect will attract towards you. Prejudice can stop you receiving people. Pride is a terrible thing, causes us to judge, find fault, see the worst, and build a wall that stops you receiving. But I was being discerning? No, you just didn't have enough love to celebrate them and receive them.

Book analyses and addresses current reconciliation thinking in terrorist-torn Northern Ireland by subjecting it to the teaching of the Bible. False reconciliation, argues Dr Lynch, is most dangerous because it creates a false sense of security. Myths around current reconciliation thinking and practice are exposed and answered, and an understanding of true and lasting reconciliation proposed.